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I experienced something similar early in my career. I was stunned when the old guy who'd been brought in for one day of consulting explained that he'd renamed h
by justatdotin 6y ago
I experienced something similar early in my career. I was stunned when the old guy who'd been brought in for one day of consulting explained that he'd renamed his parameters with single characters to guarantee future work.
but the GM had already given us a stern warning to show him respect. also he got around without the use of his legs. If I'd reacted as I wanted to it would not have gone down well...
- 908B64B197 6y ago> he'd renamed his parameters with single characters to guarantee future work. Then they hired an intern with compiler experience and suddenly his help wasn't needed anymore
- justatdotin 6y agowell, kinda. anyway, legless ahole only got one day of high-rate consulting for his trouble.
- shawn-furyan 6y agoI was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can focus on what the code does rather than being tricked into making invalid assumptions by misleading names.
- gnramires 6y agoThis gives me a great inspiration for a programming puzzle and learning method: Replace all variable/function names with generics. Your only job is to give names to every variable (trying to figure out what each does). After you're done you can compare to de-obfuscated names to see if they do what you expected (if they're named sensibly).
- lookdangerous 6y agoBuild the MVP!
- gnramires 6y agoA bit much on my plate. Care to join in?
- ChrisRR 6y agoCode review should throw his work back at him and tell him to name his variables properly